"--for-your-eyes-only"

Johan Wevers johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl
Tue Jun 28 11:16:00 CEST 2005


David Shaw wrote:

>is a command line application, and you can't really make a secure
>viewer on the command line, and by its nature a secure viewer would
>not be nearly portable enough.

[...]

>However, GnuPG can call other programs to do other tasks (keyserver
>access programs, JPEG viewers for photo IDs), so it's not impossible
>that GnuPG could call an external secure viewer program.  I don't know
>of one offhand though.

Which makes me think... outputting the text to a .jpg (or .gif or .png)
with secure fonts shown in the picture. The picture could then be looked
at in an external vieuwer. That would be completely portable.

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